Yes, it would be useful, but perhaps not through the CDC. And, I guess I should have couched my statement with the proviso that “gun ownership.....” be “legal gun ownership..”
There is no more chance of the CDC doing behavioral epidemiology on this subject than there is of NASA flying, well, anywhere ever again.
The decline and fall of CDC and NASA have occurred over almost exactly the same time span, and for almost exactly the same reasons.
Each organization still has small redoubts of technical and intellectual superiority, that persist because the vandals are too stupid to recognize and destroy them.
But as far as the big picture, it will take a revolution to restore what has been lost.
Scientific survey conducted by me a minute and a half ago.
82 shootings, 14 dead.
% white on white? 1%
% white on black?
% black on white? 1%
% black on black? 95%
% other (Latino, Asian, African, middle eastern, European) 3%
Since the actual statistics haven’t been published yet( probably because it doesn’t fit the narrative, I fathomed a guess using empirical data)
Now to the percentage of guns legally bought by the shooter from a respected gun dealer.
White - 95%
Black - 3%
Other - 2%
Finally, shooters who have been incarcerated before for other violets crimes.
White - 8%
Black 87%
Other 5%
Conclusion. Majority of blacks who have previously been incarcerated are the mostl likely to own an illegal gun and use it to murder other blacks, who have also been incarcerated and own an illegal gun.
How to fix? Death penalty for murder, life in prison for committing a crime with an gun, mandatory 10 years if caught with an illegal gun.
Governments fix. Make owning a gun illegal to the 95% of whites who legally own guns and commit less than 3% of the crimes with a gun.